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Could you be our next kitchen manager?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 2 Aug, 2023 - 16:39

Could you be our next kitchen manager?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 2 Aug, 2023 - 16:39

Taraloka offers a unique context for women to live a full-time Dharma life, for being of service to others and for personal and collective transformation.

Taraloka is recruiting for a kitchen manager to join the Operations Team in early 2024. You will need to be an Order Member or GFR Mitra with a full, manual UK driving licence. You will need to be able to work full time, be physically fit and have a strong desire to engage wholeheartedly with both community living and team-based right...
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Going For Refuge

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 2 Aug, 2023 - 00:00
Punyamala explains what it means to go for refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha at the Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Sangha Night.
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Come spend time amongst the Elders...

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 16:24

Come spend time amongst the Elders...

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 16:24

We’re really looking forward to welcoming Danayutta back to Taraloka for In the Footsteps of the Buddha, where she will share her love of Buddhist storytelling, as well as a deep dive into the meditation.

The Buddha had many disciples, whose stories have come down to us through the Pali Canon, including the Therigatha, or Songs of the Elder Sisters. Their stories are deeply human - there are tales of grief, tales of love and tales of adventure. All of them share...
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Vajrapriya on Shabda's 50th anniversary

From Order Connection on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 15:45

Vajrapriya on Shabda's 50th anniversary

From Order Connection on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 15:45

Vajrapriya shares a little about the upcoming 50th anniversary of Shabda, and what Shabda means to him.
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Forthcoming Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Forthcoming Ordination at the Manchester Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Dear friends in the Order,  

I am delighted to let you know that Julie Franklin of the Manchester sangha will be receiving her Private Ordination during a special three day ordination retreat, with her kula and preceptors, at Brinscall Hall in Lancashire between 4th-6th August.  The Public Ordination Ceremony will take place on Sunday 13th August at 2pm at the Manchester Buddhist Centre.  Julie’s Private Preceptor will be Suryaka and Dayanandi will be the Public Preceptor.  

Sadhu!!
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Dharmabytes: Dropping Our Defences

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Ratnadharini gives us an inspiring, down-to-earth consideration of Verses 4-6 of the Eight Verses for Training the Mind by Langrithangpa.  Uncompromising, brilliant, long considered a classic of the Lojong mind training school, Langrithangpa’s pithy text bears daily reflection and can fuel a lifetime of Dharma inquiry and practice. 

Excerpted from a talk on Verses 4-6 from a series of talks on the Eight Verses for Training the Mind given at the ...
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FBA Podcast: A Body of Practice

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 29 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Drawing upon the myths in the life of the Buddha Satyapara explores the role the body plays when we take up Buddhist practice. She describes the Buddha as a child under a rose apple tree being deeply in touch with his surrounding and when calling upon the earth he gains confidence in his practice and overcomes his doubts. With these stories Satyapara invites us to trust our body. Given in Cambridge, UK, in...
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UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

There are moments when criticism of a particular kind – the only kind I care for – utterly absorbs me. I feel I am touching a mystery. There is a wall, as it were, of dense, warm darkness before me – a darkness that is secretly alive and thrilling to the sense. This, I like to believe, is the reflection in myself of the darkness which broods over the poet’s creative mind. It forms slowly and gradually gathers while I...
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Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis -  Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...
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Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis -  Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...

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